lost and forgotten juveniles poems: Hit the wall.

 You wish to hit the wall—
that is your will.

You can hit the wall—
that is your strength.

You hit the wall—
that is your courage.

You keep hitting the wall,
believing it will break—
that is stupidity.

You keep hitting the wall,
believing it will break if done wholeheartedly—
that is faith.

You keep hitting the wall,
believe wholeheartedly, and it breaks—
that is a miracle.

Faith is blind; it needs no reason.
Miracles are unexplained.
But only hard work can make a difference—
do not escape it.

Your will generates strength.
Your strength fuels courage.
Courage is often mistaken for stupidity.
Stupidity ends where logic begins—
or so they say.

Yet stupidity, with a little insight and courage to persist,
becomes faith—
and faith is miraculous.